Eternity Quotes - Page 20

• All eternity is in the moment.

  Mary Oliver

  Moments

  Mary Oliver (2004). “Blue Iris: Poems and Essays”, p.46, Beacon Press

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• The Cross is the central event in time and eternity, and the answer to all the problems of both.

  Oswald Chambers

  Events, Answers, Problem

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.212, Discovery House

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• Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience is God's eye, mercy is God's delight, eternity is God's duration, but holiness is God's beauty!

  Stephen Charnock

  Eye, Hands, Delight

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• In Jesus Christ we have been chosen from eternity, accepted in time, and united for eternity.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Christ, Accepted

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.11, SCM Press

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• Prayer gives us strength for great ideals, for keeping up our faith, charity, purity, generosity; prayer gives us strength to rise up from indifference and guilt, if we have had the misfortune to give in to temptation and weakness. Prayer gives us light by which to see and to judge from God's perspective and from eternity. That is why you must not give up on praying!

  Pope John Paul II

  Prayer, Giving Up, Light

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• Time, how short-eternity, how long! Death, how brief-immortali ty, how endless!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Long, Endless

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• The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity. You are never too young to learn, never too old to change. Your yearnings to learn and change come from a divinely instilled striving for eternal progression. Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Wise, Spiritual, Opportunity

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• The idea of enemies is awful it makes one stop remembering eternity and the fear of death. That is what enemies are. Possessions are the same as enemies only less so, they too make one
  forget eternity and the fear of death.

  Gertrude Stein

  Ideas, Enemy, Awful

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.42, Random House

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• God is not pre or post anything. He is present to everything. ... There is not predestination but destination, not predestiny but destiny. This follows from divine omniscience and eternity.

  Peter Kreeft

  God, Destiny, Divine

  Peter Kreeft (2004). “The God who Loves You: "love Divine, All Loves Excelling"”, p.149, Ignatius Press

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• Let us not try to understand music with our mind. Let us not even try to feel it with our heart. Let us simply and spontaneously allow the music-bird to fly in our heart-sky. While flying, it will unconditionally reveal to us what it has and what it is. What it has, is Immortality's message. What it is, is Eternity's passage.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Heart, Sky, Bird

  Sri Chinmoy (1978). “Meditation: Man-perfection in God-satisfaction”, p.102, Aum Publications

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• Once [a soul] is condemned by God, then God's friends agree in God's judgment and condemnation. For all eternity they will not have a kind thought for this wretch. Rather they will be satisfied to see him in the flames as a victim of God's justice. ("The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge . . ." Psalm 57:11) They will abhor him. A mother will look from paradise upon her own condemned son without being moved, as though she had never known him.

  Anthony Mary Claret

  Mother, Revenge, Son

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• Represent to yourself a dark city all burning and stinking with fire and brimstone. The damned are in the depth of hell within this woful city, where they suffer unspeakable torments in all their senses and members. Consider above all the eternity of their pains, which above all things makes hell intolerable.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Pain, Dark, Cities

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• The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move; the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.

  Matthew Simpson

  Faith, Moving, Personal Knowledge

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• ‎This I know... That often when I sang, and drummed, and danced, I found my eternity.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Wisdom, Found, Knows

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• Our good works are like stones cast into the pool of time; though the stones themselves may disappear, their ripples extend to eternity.

  Heidi

  Volunteer, May, Stones

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• Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Adversity, Voice, Affliction

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• The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did not meet again!

  Robert Southey

  World, Weight, Headstone

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• The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.

  Saint Augustine

  Purpose, Gains, Merit

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• Heaven is beyond our imagination . . . . At our most creative moment, at our deepest thought, at our highest level, we still cannot fathom eternity.

  Max Lucado

  God, Christian, Religious

  Max Lucado (2013). “Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal”, p.532, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I will love you all my life and when I die I will still love you through eternity and beyond.

  LeAnn Rimes

  I Love You, Forever With You, Forever Love

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• To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Resentments cannot be held with the same tenacity when we enter his gracious light.

  Richard J. Foster

  Christian, Light, Resentment

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity.

  Ellis Peters

  Brother, Soul, Elbows

  Ellis Peters (2014). “A Rare Benedictine: The Advent Of Brother Cadfael”, p.69, Head of Zeus

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• The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of souls for time and eternity is determined, in quietude and solitude.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Fate, Solitude

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• But learned people can analyze for me why I fear hell and their implication is that there is no hell. But I believe in hell. Hell seems a great deal more feasible to my weak mind than heaven. No doubt because hell is a more earth-seeming thing. I can fancy the tortures of the damned but I cannot imagine the disembodied souls hanging in a crystal for all eternity praising God.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Believe, People, Heaven

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• A man who imagines that because he has a head full of knowledge that he is sufficient for these things had better start learning again. 'Who is sufficient for these things?' What are you doing? You are not simply imparting information, you are dealing with souls, you are dealing with pilgrims on the way to eternity, you are dealing with matters not only of life and death in this world, but with eternal destiny.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Destiny, Men, Life And Death

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